Note 568 — Chapter VIII · LATIN TREATISES AND HISTORY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
A special class is formed by the semi-satirical dialogues, which Collenuccio, and still more Pontano, copied from Lucian. Their example stimulated Erasmus and Hutten. For the treatises properly so-called parts of the ethical writings of Plutarch may have served as models.